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Unseen replied to Elon Johnson's discussion 'Are people stupid?'"Mostly, I would say, in terms of wisdom, which is separate from knowledge and doesn't necessarily require an advanced degree to possess. My father wasn't a highly-educated man. Never got a college degree, but more like a few continuing…"
Unseen replied to Unseen's discussion 'The Racists Really Won't Like This!'"Racists view blacks as inferior to whites. More primitive. Neanderthals were primitive man who, it was widely thought till recently, were supplanted by Cro-Magnon (modern) man due to the Cro-Magnon's superiority. Thus, European whites (on that…"
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dataguy replied to Elon Johnson's discussion 'Are people stupid?'"Americans are pretty unique in that many of us almost worship ignorance, believing education is bad and good-old horse sense (no matter how nonsensical) is good. I believe this has it's roots in the Bible, as it refers to scholars as…"
Holo Gram replied to Matt Giwer's discussion 'We cannot think like our ancestors'"Speaking of not thinking like our ancestors, according to China's First National Census of Water, more than 28,000 of its rivers are missing. Missing? Over half of their rivers have gone missing?
How might we connect observations and…"
Ron Humphrey replied to Matt Giwer's discussion 'We cannot think like our ancestors'"t always amazes me and makes me angry when after a tornado there is always someone who says "praise god, it was a miracle that I survived". They conveniently forget that some of their neighbors may not have been so lucky and were…"
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